I am 67 years old, I am a retired professional transmission rebuilder and shop owner. I grew up o my dads used car lot working on everything. I lived in a time when these monsters roamed the earth,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
I grew up during the late 1970 my father bought me a 1968 mustang rag top . Small block 289 . It loved to rev . Replaced it a year later with a hypo 289 Wow what a rocket !
Came to make that comment. I fell hard for the 69-73 Mach 1s when I was a teen, but the 69 specifically is the most beautiful Mustang ever made. The Mach 1 styling perfectly accented it, too.
I totally agree!! My 69 Mach1 was blue with gold stripes, 351 4-speed. I put in a go-fast cam & headers on, it was a pocket rocket. I surprised quite a few mopars! that was in the early 70's. Wish I still had it.
Me too! But, so happy to see modern cars so much faster! A basic pickup truck can smoke anything from the 60's or 70s, not to mention a Tesla Model S or anything from 2024 smoking a muscle car.
I'm 67 I had a 1970 cougar 351 Cleveland factory 4 speed top loader tranny man that car was fast my brother had a 70 Torino 429. That was 1974. I miss those cars, those times, getting thrown back in the seat as you shift through those gears.
I bought a 69 428cj mach one shortly after graduating high school in 73. Street raced it into the ground including a spanking of a Cuda street Hemi. 1/4 mile of burnt rubber for him and big win for the CJ. I now have a 69 Super Bee 383 4 speed car. Still has the original paint and is numbers matching. I may be long in the tooth but I'm still heavy on the foot!
@@roguewarr4662 ~ The 426 Hemi from about 1966 to 1971. Also the trouble I see with these cars in this video above is lack of traction at takeoff as some spin too much and lose time.
I had the 1967, 390, GT, fast back, 4 speed. Paid $700 in 1976. Sold it in 1990 for $8,000. Bought 1963 Vette, split window, 327 for $10,000 in 1988. My brother stole in when I went to law school in 1992. Forged my signature on title and sold it. We gave not spoken since....
@chadhaire1711 Cobra Jet powered cars won the 68 Winternationals setting new records causing NHRA to rewrite the stock and super stock rule book. When they came out they were definitely beastly and a force to be reckoned with to this day still holding records in super stock and stock classes.
@@charleslum2438 Those were not stock Gomer.......stop cherry picking. No car back then put out more than 365 horsepower net. Even the 440-6 was only 325 net. 426 Hemi was 35o net or 365 if you over revved to 6,000. Those Fords were no better. All over rated rust buckets that guzzled gas, could not corner, and had brakes that could get you killed. Few around today as most rusted away.
I own a 68' Cougar with a 302 and an RV cam. What a joy this car has been. Over 1 million miles on the same engine with no rebuild yet. I love Castol 20W50 oil. My brother and I built a 69' GTO and showed it in Car Craft Magazines q at tge Indy fair grounds in the 70s. Those were the days.
95 GT with a SC Big Bore 363 mounted to a T56 trans, fully built from web bracing to jack rails modified and Re-engineered suspension to brakes. So basically a massive money pit, but I love it. Keep it up fellas and ladies, these cars are worth it.
I grew up in these cars. I now have a tuned 2023 trail boss6.2l truck sitting at 540hp that turns 13.9-14.0 at 102-107 every run. It’s just amazing what I thought those old cars could do when I used to run them.
I was part of the car scene in those days when these cars were all over the place.Spent man weekends at the now defunct US30 Dragstrip(Gary,IN) throughout the 60’s.These times are just what I would expect to see from these,not as some of the ‘stocker’ videos I’ve seen where they are running 12sec times.Tri-power GTO’s were turning some high 13’s tho.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking. I wasn’t old enough to drive till med seventies. What a great time though . They were same as giving away Mopars. You didn’t have to do much to them to drop ET pickup the mile per hour. With the compression ratio of the sixty’s and early 70s cars you had to pull the timing back to get them to run their best on the lower octane gas of the late seventies. The compression and the gas was a perfect situation to go up a couple sizes on the cam getting one with more overlap throw on a set of headers and it would really wake one up. I lived in Gary from 68 to 72 myself.From second grade to sixth grade. I didn’t like it very much at all. Not just because I didn’t get to go that strip hell I nobody even told me it was there. I went from being a poor white boy in Alabama to being a poor white boy in Gary . Luckily I had an older brother but sadly for me anyway he got bused to a different school. If he would’ve went to the same school as me it would have doubled the number of poor white boys there. But it wasn’t that bad and was a character building situation.
@ Yeah,my younger brother bought a new ‘70 440 Charger.We did a lot of cruising in that one.My GTO was 6yo at that time,had some hard miles on it by then.Before my brother got his Charger,he was driving mine in 68-69 while I was in Nam.The only junior driving a car to school.Jobs were easy to get back then.I worked two jobs my senior year to pay my car payment.Had all my credits,only had school for three hours.School had a work program with retailers,I worked 5-6hrs a day at two places.
@@babaoreally8220 yeah I paid for all mine myself too. The people talking about how much faster and better the muscle cars of today are right. But they’re missing the most important part to me. I bought several Mopars but one of my favorites and quickest was a 68 GTX with less than 60000 miles. I gave $1050 for it which according to google is less than $3000 in today’s money. The only muscle cars of today that would for sure outrun that GTX are the supercharged cars. I don’t know any teenagers working full or part time right out of high school being able to afford the insurance on a used hellcat much less the payment. A 2015 hellcat with 60000 miles would still cost you 50 to 60 thousand now. The muscle cars of today are faster and better but that doesn’t matter to average person because they’re priced out of their reach . I still have a couple of Duster’s and a 1968 Barracuda . I have had the Barracuda since 1988 and it’s not even close to stock but does run on pump gas and is fully street legal. It has a small block with a little over 600 hp .
Heads Up Drag Racing is the only drag racing I like. I’ve watched too many Bracket Racers hitting the brakes just prior to the 1/8 or 1/4 mile lights so they don’t “Break Out”! We used to run various classes and oftentimes we had to wait for our green light, while the car in the other lane was rated in a slower class, but regardless of that, when you got your light, it was time to show off in a “Run what you Brung” style!
Its crazy how far the car culture has come. 13.0 in the 1/4 mile used to be a smoking pass. Now mini vans can do 12's. It's really cool how far these racers got us from pure Ingenuity
@@jeffrankin9744 I think you got sidetracked there. You are talking about factory stock cars then jumped to a 700 hp minivan. Ronnie Sox tested a new 1969 A-12 Roadrunner with the 440-6 he got 13. Seconds ET . Which is two seconds faster than a factory van like you’re talking about. It’s also two seconds slower than the slowest hellcat. So in the future if you’re going to dog the muscle cars of our youth at least get your facts straight and do it right.
Do they still have concours class drags? Would love to compete with my all original 1990 light crystal blue Mustang lx coupe saviour. I'm still running the factory exhaust even the cat back is original to the car. I've been subscribed to your channel for decades...,
@@mitchblackmore5230 yeah that’s one way to look at . It could easily be argued that it still takes something with force air induction to out run these cars. Let’s say 2005 basically 35 years. I would argue that the fifteen years prior to the seventies saw more advancement in HP and speed. The V-8s of the early and mid fifties weren’t much faster than the six cylinder. Only the top of the line models of each brand got the V8 .These cars are running more mile per hour in the quarter then the middle fifties cars could run in a twenty mile down hill stretch.
@@randymagnum143 One of my buddies custom tunes Subies and even a stock STI will loosen fillings. Boost it to 500+ and watch out. Rubber has improved a lot since the 60's as well.
My old co worker friend told me his older brother had a 1970 Boss 429. He said it was weird because the battery was in the trunk. He told me the windows of his moms house used to shake when his brother fired it up. Nothing could catch that car, Nothing......
I love these old Super Sleds! (I'm from Pasco County Florida) I'd like to race my big brothers '68 Cutlass Station Wagon, (inherited from Granny) with the tailgate taken off, "L60s" on the back, 'Skinnys' up front, traction bars.. even Granny's CB Radio in it, and the long antenna on the back with a tennis ball! Yeee haw! Save yer Dixie Cups, The South's gonna do it again!! Glitter done! The bagel is a Yankee conspiracy to overthrow the biscuit!! (Sorry guys I just had to) 😂
@Hugefknballs all clowning aside, I recall my Highschool parking lot.. (I graduated in 81) a friend had one of those 69 Mustangs, fastback, 302 (I think, been a long time) another guy had a 70 cougar convertible, candy apple, another a 69 Chevelle convertible, red and black, I guess they weren't as rare then. One new guy would pass our bus in a 65 GTO, all white, also a ragtop, damn!! It was a small senior class too..
@@lollipop84858That’s the idea here and part of the fun. These aren’t race cars. They’re concourse level show cars running on OEM bias ply tires. It’s all about keeping the car factory appearing and working within the limitations of the original suspension geometry and tires.
im am very fortunate to have my dad leave me a 67 fastback 2+2. 289. many motors later i have a 428 cobra jet door slammer /dragster. front mustang 2 clip. 9 inch. 2 speed power glide . she running 10.5 s fairly well in bracket. thanks dad . it was his first car. love American muscle
So my 383 cuda with a 3.23 highway gear would hsve Competed bone stock 14. 71 at Detroit dragway . My budy ran low 14 with 69 fairlane 4 spd and he also took my other friends Judge to a 13.7 in Detroit .not bad for 3 20 year old kids with bone stock cars .
Such amazing cars and the sounds they make are something we never forget. What I forget is how SLOW they are compared to any modern vehicle. A Honda mini van will give them all a serious run in the 1/4 mile. That's not a negative of a dig at these amazing cars. I love them all. But what a difference 50 years makes in efficiency.
@@chadhaire1711 they did not over rate them, they actually under rated them for insurance purposes. The 440-6 ,426 hemi, 428scj, Boss 9, 427, 454 were all near or just above 500hp. The reason that all these cars were 13 seconds at best is weight, aerodynamics, suspention and carburators. Todays cars( 2024) are nothing like yeaster years cars. But still piston powered like 120 years ago.
@@derrickgardener2148 BULLSHIT..no cars were under rated for insurance...never happened...another myth. They were all OVER RATED by using the fake dyno gross system that was banned after 1971. NO engine before then ever reached near 500 hp Goober......426 was 425 hp gross at 5.000 rpm which was dropped to 350 net after 1971. Even over revving to 6,000 rpm was 365 net tops...any 2023 5.7 V-8 is more at 385 hp net. 440-6 was only 325 hp net. These numbers are 100% and out of the 1972 MOPAR parts catalog. You have no clue what you are talking about. Go back to school and learn what GROSS and NET means.
Tires were bias-ply. They had a very hard time hooking up. I had a 72 charger with a 318. I could burn rubber for 400 feet without touching the brake pedal. I also drove a friend's Cougar with a 428SCJ motor in it. You could literally blow a puff of air on the gas pedal and do a massive, out of control burnout. Not even posi-trac and extra weight in the trunk helped. That thing was undrivable in the rain. A dangerous beast. I actually beat it in a street race with my mom's Nova with a 250 straight six because the cougar, with all its massive power, could not hook up with those chinky tires. In fact, my friend wrecked the cougar during that race and we had to go to the junkyard to get another fender so his dad wouldn't find out. Those tires were complete garbage!
You be surprised at the weight of the Mopars. The Roadrunners are little lighter than the big block mustangs. It’s more the driver with them being stock especially if that includes the tires . The guy or girl as seen here that can get the car to moving with the least amount of wheel spin is usually going to win. I also sure that some of them are shifting a little early then others which can make a big difference to
@@strattuner this was in the eighties you couldn’t get but 93 octane gas where I lived. You had to back the timing off to get those big Mopars to run on that gas. You could go up a size or two in cam get one with overlap and a set of headers and we’re talking about a different car.
Very interesting what seems to be very stock "rare" as hens teeth bone stock muscle cars that have not been "tricked or souped up essentially glass packs. No headers, aftermarket cams or intake manifolds. . . Stock the way most muscle car drivers kept their cars essentially stock in the day and stop-light street raced their cars. One thing I know is the big block FE Mustang's were typically lighter then the shown competitors and on the period belted tires. Every pound or just one passenger was like running with the emergency brake on. 69 428SCJ Mach ! had me chuckle with Chet the driver blipping the the throttle to launch... A torque monster FE big block on the street demanded you hold it steady at just under 2,000rpm drop the clutch, then feathering the gas and short shifting earlyinto 2nd and about 3,000 and then pedal to the metal as the toque put the tires on the edge of grip - just barely spinning/burning rubber as it torqued in second up to a mid-5 grand shift point. Stock form these motors wer not good breathers.. 6,000 grand shifting was fantasy and watching the driver walk away on you. . Driving/Street Racing a period correct Muslle Car was all about finesse on the gas pedal getting the belted tires to not be overpowered by the torque in 1st and second , Amazing historic video/filming... All always recall the guy with a glorious 69 GTO on Cragar S/S's that wouldn't"run" that car ever.
@@FrankChesser we had a spot between Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia and Berryville, Virginia on Rt. 340 where we counted off 7 telephone poles which came out to be a 1/4 mile lol
Valerie wins because women have a quicker reaction time. We bear children and it’s in our nature that we take care of and protect them from harm with our lives throughout history. As far as drag racing we are balanced at the hip because we are designed to bear children, therefore we can release the brakes, dump the clutch and hit the gas pedal simultaneously. Men are balanced at the chest for upper body strength. Having a 1968 428 cobra jet Shelby Mustang sure helps a lot though.😊
Boss 429 cars were so detuned it made them pathetic. Thos engine was capable of 600 hp e en detuned but it was a mismatched bunch of racing parts that were hastily slapped together to homologize it for NASCAR use. If Ford had taken a little time and put some thought into it they could have had a real legendary piece with the hemi mustang. It was a dog on the street, but it could be tuned for competition easily in the right hands with great success.
@@charleslum2438 the 429 and 302 Boss cars were not setup for drag racing. Both did poorly on the drag strip but excelled on road course and oval track.
I am 67 years old, I am a retired professional transmission rebuilder and shop owner. I grew up o my dads used car lot working on everything. I lived in a time when these monsters roamed the earth,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
I lived though the days that these vehicles ruled the streets
Had a 65 GTO 3 two barrels Carbs with a 4 speed.
Me too sir
I was born in 71. My dad had a 71 Mach 1 with the 351 Cleveland. Silver and black. He loved that car.
Modern cars would trounce these. Also, what purpose are all those commas serving at the end of your sentence? Why do boomers do that?
What purpose does your bitching do?
I have a 68 GT 500KR 4 speed 3 ex-wives tried to get it but failed.
NEVER LET GO,you'll be sorry,ex wives come a go,the collectibles stay
I grew up during the late 1970 my father bought me a 1968 mustang rag top . Small block
289 . It loved to rev . Replaced it a year later with a hypo 289
Wow what a rocket !
A man's got to have his priorities! Well done my friend.
3 ex-wives you really are a slow learner.
@@strattuneryou forgot the excitement , value and the wanting to take it for a spin never goes down.
The '69 Mach 1 hooked me on Mustangs. What a body.
Came to make that comment. I fell hard for the 69-73 Mach 1s when I was a teen, but the 69 specifically is the most beautiful Mustang ever made. The Mach 1 styling perfectly accented it, too.
Nice car. But I prefer the 71'-73' Mach 1's.
I totally agree!! My 69 Mach1 was blue with gold stripes, 351 4-speed. I put in a go-fast cam & headers on, it was a pocket rocket. I surprised quite a few mopars! that was in the early 70's. Wish I still had it.
I'm a Mopar guy, but those Mustangs sure could hook up off the line.
Me to my favorite. I'm 71 now and my best friend had one back in the day.
These were some good old fashioned races. That lady in the Mustang can really drive. Very impressive!!!
And she probably weighed 100 lbs...
@@TimAtkinson-qs6sv she and her husband both ran two different GT500 Mustangs, and she always beat him off the line lol.
Mopar and Mustangs - So happy to have grown up seeing these driving down the street as a young teen.
I still have my 70 Plymouth GTX 440 4 SPEED STILL ROCKS TODAY. ALL MATCHING NUMBERS ORIDGINEL PAINT BLUE BLACK VINYL TOP. LOVE TO DRIVE IT.
Nice!!!!!
Me too! But, so happy to see modern cars so much faster! A basic pickup truck can smoke anything from the 60's or 70s, not to mention a Tesla Model S or anything from 2024 smoking a muscle car.
@robertallison9653 better mpg too
@@robertallison9653 You want attention so bad, lol
Hell yea. I was showing my 60 year old coworker your videos the other day to let him re-live some of his glory days. He loved it 😎
Weird
I'm 67 I had a 1970 cougar 351 Cleveland factory 4 speed top loader tranny man that car was fast my brother had a 70 Torino 429. That was 1974. I miss those cars, those times, getting thrown back in the seat as you shift through those gears.
Cleveland was a much better built engine than the Windsor
The 428 scj is a force to be reckoned with.
It's a slow, lumbering beast compared to a Tesla Model S Plaid.
@@robertallison9653 sure troll
@@wildbill7081 Oh yeah? Do you know the trap speed of a Tesla Model S Plaid?
@@robertallison9653 No and I don't care
@@wildbill7081 Well sounds like you're the troll
I bought a 69 428cj mach one shortly after graduating high school in 73. Street raced it into the ground including a spanking of a Cuda street Hemi. 1/4 mile of burnt rubber for him and big win for the CJ. I now have a 69 Super Bee 383 4 speed car. Still has the original paint and is numbers matching. I may be long in the tooth but I'm still heavy on the foot!
Brings back the good old days of Drag Racing , love them 6packs.
Plymouth-Dodge also had a 426 dual-quad.
@@royjohnson465 Are talking 426 wedge or 426 Hemi just curious . Either great engines
@@roguewarr4662 ~ The 426 Hemi from about 1966 to 1971. Also the trouble I see with these cars in this video above is lack of traction at takeoff as some spin too much and lose time.
In the mid-70's I had a 68 Mustang 390 high performance 4 speed, It makes me almost sick to my stomach every I think of me not keeping it.
My first car at sixteen was a 1966 Mustang GT - K Code Coupe. Sold it to my brother to restore and to keep in the family. HE SOLD IT.
@@StreetTruckinTitanaw man I hate to hear things like that. I hope one day it returns to th family.
I had the 1967, 390, GT, fast back, 4 speed. Paid $700 in 1976. Sold it in 1990 for $8,000. Bought 1963 Vette, split window, 327 for $10,000 in 1988. My brother stole in when I went to law school in 1992. Forged my signature on title and sold it. We gave not spoken since....
Oh fuck yeah man! Keep posting this stuff, solid GOLD!!!
428 Cobra Jet was a monster.
No it wasn't..
@chadhaire1711 Cobra Jet powered cars won the 68 Winternationals setting new records causing NHRA to rewrite the stock and super stock rule book. When they came out they were definitely beastly and a force to be reckoned with to this day still holding records in super stock and stock classes.
My bro had one of the 1st 428 cobra jet mustangs in 1968 ,it would not run with my stock 68 Plymouth 440
@@charleslum2438 Those were not stock Gomer.......stop cherry picking. No car back then put out more than 365 horsepower net. Even the 440-6 was only 325 net. 426 Hemi was 35o net or 365 if you over revved to 6,000.
Those Fords were no better. All over rated rust buckets that guzzled gas, could not corner, and had brakes that could get you killed. Few around today as most rusted away.
@@peterhanson3391 When it comes to big blocks of the big 3 the fords we're the bottom of the barrel
This sute was a fun video to watch. Good job.
I own a 68' Cougar with a 302 and an RV cam. What a joy this car has been. Over 1 million miles on the same engine with no rebuild yet. I love Castol 20W50 oil. My brother and I built a 69' GTO and showed it in Car Craft Magazines q at tge Indy fair grounds in the 70s. Those were the days.
@@kimwarfield1587 I’ve used Castrol for 30 years.
101 mph in the quarter in a 383 auto car. That 65 383 has had some work done.
They were pretty light cars i believe
Literally EVERY car that's drag racing has "had some work done".
@@Coelacanth97Thanks for the information
@@mattsgarage6670 Same block as the 440.
95 GT with a SC Big Bore 363 mounted to a T56 trans, fully built from web bracing to jack rails modified and Re-engineered suspension to brakes. So basically a massive money pit, but I love it.
Keep it up fellas and ladies, these cars are worth it.
Hooray for Ford V8 Mustangs! 🇺🇸💪
I grew up in these cars. I now have a tuned 2023 trail boss6.2l truck sitting at 540hp that turns 13.9-14.0 at 102-107 every run. It’s just amazing what I thought those old cars could do when I used to run them.
Nice realistic times for a change
I was part of the car scene in those days when these cars were all over the place.Spent man weekends at the now defunct US30 Dragstrip(Gary,IN) throughout the 60’s.These times are just what I would expect to see from these,not as some of the ‘stocker’ videos I’ve seen where they are running 12sec times.Tri-power GTO’s were turning some high 13’s tho.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking. I wasn’t old enough to drive till med seventies. What a great time though . They were same as giving away Mopars. You didn’t have to do much to them to drop ET pickup the mile per hour. With the compression ratio of the sixty’s and early 70s cars you had to pull the timing back to get them to run their best on the lower octane gas of the late seventies. The compression and the gas was a perfect situation to go up a couple sizes on the cam getting one with more overlap throw on a set of headers and it would really wake one up. I lived in Gary from 68 to 72 myself.From second grade to sixth grade. I didn’t like it very much at all. Not just because I didn’t get to go that strip hell I nobody even told me it was there. I went from being a poor white boy in Alabama to being a poor white boy in Gary . Luckily I had an older brother but sadly for me anyway he got bused to a different school. If he would’ve went to the same school as me it would have doubled the number of poor white boys there. But it wasn’t that bad and was a character building situation.
@ Yeah,my younger brother bought a new ‘70 440 Charger.We did a lot of cruising in that one.My GTO was 6yo at that time,had some hard miles on it by then.Before my brother got his Charger,he was driving mine in 68-69 while I was in Nam.The only junior driving a car to school.Jobs were easy to get back then.I worked two jobs my senior year to pay my car payment.Had all my credits,only had school for three hours.School had a work program with retailers,I worked 5-6hrs a day at two places.
@@babaoreally8220 yeah I paid for all mine myself too. The people talking about how much faster and better the muscle cars of today are right. But they’re missing the most important part to me. I bought several Mopars but one of my favorites and quickest was a 68 GTX with less than 60000 miles. I gave $1050 for it which according to google is less than $3000 in today’s money. The only muscle cars of today that would for sure outrun that GTX are the supercharged cars. I don’t know any teenagers working full or part time right out of high school being able to afford the insurance on a used hellcat much less the payment. A 2015 hellcat with 60000 miles would still cost you 50 to 60 thousand now. The muscle cars of today are faster and better but that doesn’t matter to average person because they’re priced out of their reach . I still have a couple of Duster’s and a 1968 Barracuda . I have had the Barracuda since 1988 and it’s not even close to stock but does run on pump gas and is fully street legal. It has a small block with a little over 600 hp .
Back then you could walk into any dealership and drive out with one of these monsters from the big three.
the 429 was one the the best v8s of late 1960s 1968 i think it came out
@2:00 minute mark check out the banner behind the blue Mustang.
Auto Shack!
That was the original name of Autozone before "Radio Shack" sued in 1986😁
Cant underestimate those Fords man!
Thank you for the finish line view. Some of us consider it as the real racing fans pov
Peak car body design...damn!
Great video and keep them coming.
I didn't see any GM cars, probably because they're too fast, besides the wife has him cleaning the yard. 😊
Doesnt get any better than that. Who wouldnt want any of these cars? Reminds me of Englishtown in the 1970s.
Ya left out "SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY"
@@michaelsorrentino-yp7nb At beautiful US 30 dragstrip!!!
I'll take a current Honda civic and have a faster car... 🤣🤣
@@WezleyB Do you eat Tofu and soy milk too??
@@WezleyBLol it won't beat these
I just watched nearly a million dollars worth of classics race to the quarter mile.
Heads Up Drag Racing is the only drag racing I like. I’ve watched too many Bracket Racers hitting the brakes just prior to the 1/8 or 1/4 mile lights so they don’t “Break Out”! We used to run various classes and oftentimes we had to wait for our green light, while the car in the other lane was rated in a slower class, but regardless of that, when you got your light, it was time to show off in a “Run what you Brung” style!
Mustang ❤
Mustangs and Shelby's still killing it!
I had a stock 1968 charger with a 383 and 727. It ran 14.0 @ 100mph
I had one too. Mines was red with black interior back in 1983
Its crazy how far the car culture has come. 13.0 in the 1/4 mile used to be a smoking pass. Now mini vans can do 12's. It's really cool how far these racers got us from pure Ingenuity
You’re nuts
Mini vans doing 12’s
Lol
Ronda odyssey. From the boosted boys looking it up, it's actually faster than 12s.
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@@jeffrankin9744 I think you got sidetracked there. You are talking about factory stock cars then jumped to a 700 hp minivan. Ronnie Sox tested a new 1969 A-12 Roadrunner with the 440-6 he got 13. Seconds ET . Which is two seconds faster than a factory van like you’re talking about. It’s also two seconds slower than the slowest hellcat. So in the future if you’re going to dog the muscle cars of our youth at least get your facts straight and do it right.
Do they still have concours class drags? Would love to compete with my all original 1990 light crystal blue Mustang lx coupe saviour. I'm still running the factory exhaust even the cat back is original to the car. I've been subscribed to your channel for decades...,
Stangs representing!
Representing what?
It's crazy how slow these old cars are compared to cars today.
@@mitchblackmore5230 yeah that’s one way to look at . It could easily be argued that it still takes something with force air induction to out run these cars. Let’s say 2005 basically 35 years. I would argue that the fifteen years prior to the seventies saw more advancement in HP and speed. The V-8s of the early and mid fifties weren’t much faster than the six cylinder. Only the top of the line models of each brand got the V8 .These cars are running more mile per hour in the quarter then the middle fifties cars could run in a twenty mile down hill stretch.
Most cars are still pretty slow. You can buy a pretty fast car right out the showroom today, though.
@@randymagnum143 One of my buddies custom tunes Subies and even a stock STI will loosen fillings. Boost it to 500+ and watch out. Rubber has improved a lot since the 60's as well.
@@robertslugg8361 🤣most subarus don’t hold up to stock power levels anymore!
Andavam demais, pelo pouco que custavam ou quebravam...
My old co worker friend told me his older brother had a 1970 Boss 429. He said it was weird because the battery was in the trunk. He told me the windows of his moms house used to shake when his brother fired it up. Nothing could catch that car, Nothing......
Bullshit..429 Boss was slow 14.0 stock
@@chadhaire1711 Not the Three , I have owned. .....
@@DIOSpeedDemon 14.0 stock
@@chadhaire1711 Not according to Keith Black who built the Stock Motor.
@@DIOSpeedDemon BOSS was 14.0 stock period....anything else is bullshit
@georgehubbard6876: the 428 Cobra Jet engines, as were all Ford big blocks, were FE engines, not the older Y blocks.
I love these old Super Sleds! (I'm from Pasco County Florida) I'd like to race my big brothers '68 Cutlass Station Wagon, (inherited from Granny) with the tailgate taken off, "L60s" on the back, 'Skinnys' up front, traction bars.. even Granny's CB Radio in it, and the long antenna on the back with a tennis ball! Yeee haw! Save yer Dixie Cups, The South's gonna do it again!! Glitter done! The bagel is a Yankee conspiracy to overthrow the biscuit!! (Sorry guys I just had to) 😂
Stars and Bars forever
@Hugefknballs all clowning aside, I recall my Highschool parking lot.. (I graduated in 81) a friend had one of those 69 Mustangs, fastback, 302 (I think, been a long time) another guy had a 70 cougar convertible, candy apple, another a 69 Chevelle convertible, red and black, I guess they weren't as rare then. One new guy would pass our bus in a 65 GTO, all white, also a ragtop, damn!! It was a small senior class too..
@John-l8m I grew up in a liberal area and nobody had any muscle except me. 71 hornet, 360 powered. Low 12 sec car..I graduated in 95
@Hugefknballs nice! I can see it now, rumbling along, a little hot and a little bored, in the Subaru gridlock, a wolfish grin on its face!
53 n grew up with the BEST OF EM❤❤❤❤❤
I bought a Boss 429 used during the gas crunch, everyone thought I was crazy, grandkid has it now.
00:30 Both cars burning rubber so much before hookup sacrificing over 1/2 a second e/t times.
Sometimes, it's part of the game.
And oil
@@Kgio-2112 it shouldn't be, drag cars are meant to hook not spin. Good point though, I suppose these are street cars
@@lollipop84858That’s the idea here and part of the fun. These aren’t race cars. They’re concourse level show cars running on OEM bias ply tires. It’s all about keeping the car factory appearing and working within the limitations of the original suspension geometry and tires.
Mustangs all day long. Owned two.
As a MOPAR fan still those CJs are hard to beat unless enters a Dodge Dart Superstock.
Much lighter pherds.
Was the Super Stock Dart a street legal car.?
Shiny red of course - just like the little old lady wanted!!
Ah. So mustangs been hurting feelings for 55 years 💪🏼✝️
im am very fortunate to have my dad leave me a 67 fastback 2+2. 289. many motors later i have a 428 cobra jet door slammer /dragster. front mustang 2 clip. 9 inch. 2 speed power glide . she running 10.5 s fairly well in bracket. thanks dad . it was his first car. love American muscle
@@thehomegrownband6122 the 1967-68 Mustang body lines are chef’s kiss masterpieces
@ i agree 100 percent, love them old fastbacks. even as a ford guy just muscle from 60s to 70 s are about prettier than centerfolds
This a great share.👍I used to enjoy Englishtown Raceway Park back in the 80's for watching this.
I grew up with a fella from Tennessee...
The Mopar 383 Commander was really popular with the shiners ❤❤
Mopars and Mustangs, can't go wrong on these matchups.
Please say WHEN the video was filmed. At least the year. Thanks.
1987
Where at@@nedaCFilms
Beech Bend Park!! Great 1/4 mile track, always prepared well. NHRA used to run there back in the day.
Very Good!
So my 383 cuda with a 3.23 highway gear would hsve Competed bone stock 14. 71 at Detroit dragway . My budy ran low 14 with 69 fairlane 4 spd and he also took my other friends Judge to a 13.7 in Detroit .not bad for 3 20 year old kids with bone stock cars .
@@thecruiser2010 the good ‘ole days ❤️
Such amazing cars and the sounds they make are something we never forget. What I forget is how SLOW they are compared to any modern vehicle. A Honda mini van will give them all a serious run in the 1/4 mile. That's not a negative of a dig at these amazing cars. I love them all. But what a difference 50 years makes in efficiency.
Remember those days.
Run what you “brung”, and hope you “brung” enough.
Muscle cars of this era were not as quick as we like to remember. High 13s were about as good as you were going to get for showroom stock.
that is because the horsepower ratings were over rated by 18%.....none put out more than 365 hp net
@@chadhaire1711 they did not over rate them, they actually under rated them for insurance purposes. The 440-6 ,426 hemi, 428scj, Boss 9, 427, 454 were all near or just above 500hp. The reason that all these cars were 13 seconds at best is weight, aerodynamics, suspention and carburators. Todays cars( 2024) are nothing like yeaster years cars. But still piston powered like 120 years ago.
@@derrickgardener2148 BULLSHIT..no cars were under rated for insurance...never happened...another myth. They were all OVER RATED by using the fake dyno gross system that was banned after 1971. NO engine before then ever reached near 500 hp Goober......426 was 425 hp gross at 5.000 rpm which was dropped to 350 net after 1971. Even over revving to 6,000 rpm was 365 net tops...any 2023 5.7 V-8 is more at 385 hp net. 440-6 was only 325 hp net. These numbers are 100% and out of the 1972 MOPAR parts catalog. You have no clue what you are talking about. Go back to school and learn what GROSS and NET means.
Tires were bias-ply. They had a very hard time hooking up. I had a 72 charger with a 318. I could burn rubber for 400 feet without touching the brake pedal. I also drove a friend's Cougar with a 428SCJ motor in it. You could literally blow a puff of air on the gas pedal and do a massive, out of control burnout. Not even posi-trac and extra weight in the trunk helped. That thing was undrivable in the rain. A dangerous beast. I actually beat it in a street race with my mom's Nova with a 250 straight six because the cougar, with all its massive power, could not hook up with those chinky tires. In fact, my friend wrecked the cougar during that race and we had to go to the junkyard to get another fender so his dad wouldn't find out. Those tires were complete garbage!
Those Mopars are just too heavy to keep up with a Mustang
You be surprised at the weight of the Mopars. The Roadrunners are little lighter than the big block mustangs. It’s more the driver with them being stock especially if that includes the tires . The guy or girl as seen here that can get the car to moving with the least amount of wheel spin is usually going to win. I also sure that some of them are shifting a little early then others which can make a big difference to
And that's the way it was. Before emissions, all there was was an oil fume recovery tube and still had leaded gas.
I like the narrator
@@CnyAuto-w4c Virgil is the best ❤️
This was from back in the 80's
REALISTIC times, not many ran in the 13's and most were well below 100 mph.
I'm trying to figure out how a Boss 429 wound up in a Shelby! IIRC they had the much more common 428 SCJ
Id love to know what rear gear is in that gt500
A quarter mile is 2 city blocks, what city has blocks that are 1/8 of a mile long?
Had to be a man to drive one of these. I had a 70
Elcamino as 396 . I miss it.
Só clássicos muito bom!!!!
The shorts on that light guy!
take 500lbs off of each one,like i did in the 60's then race them,the timers never lie,all of these AMERICAN IRON MONSTERS WERE QUICK,damn quick
These things are slow dinosaurs 😂
@@strattuner this was in the eighties you couldn’t get but 93 octane gas where I lived. You had to back the timing off to get those big Mopars to run on that gas. You could go up a size or two in cam get one with overlap and a set of headers and we’re talking about a different car.
Thise round taillights should indicate that charger is a 68, not 69, when the taillights were flat. Correct?
The lights inside are making it look like a 68, it's an illusion. Look carefully just before and after you'll see they're 'eyebrow' lenses
@@joemancini3258 I never knew the 69 had round lights inside. Interesting..
look at the grill, that charger is the special Charger 500 edition built only 390+ copies for nascar homologation...........it is a 69 1/2.
@davidthayer6969 learn something new every day.
@@mjc3502 those aren’t round taillights, you’re seeing the brake light bulbs lighting up coupled with very old analog video quality.
Should the mustang race another car that weights 300 to 400 pounds heavier?
Apologies if I somehow missed it... Does anyone know what year this was filmed in? Thanks! Fun stuff to watch!
look like 1972
@@frisk151 1987
I wonder when this was filmed.? Judging by the guys’ shorts, it was 30 years ago.
1987
in 1974 the only car to ever beat my R code was a 440 six pac challenger ..
Very interesting what seems to be very stock "rare" as hens teeth bone stock muscle cars that have not been "tricked or souped up essentially glass packs. No headers, aftermarket cams or intake manifolds. . . Stock the way most muscle car drivers kept their cars essentially stock in the day and stop-light street raced their cars. One thing I know is the big block FE Mustang's were typically lighter then the shown competitors and on the period belted tires. Every pound or just one passenger was like running with the emergency brake on. 69 428SCJ Mach ! had me chuckle with Chet the driver blipping the the throttle to launch... A torque monster FE big block on the street demanded you hold it steady at just under 2,000rpm drop the clutch, then feathering the gas and short shifting earlyinto 2nd and about 3,000 and then pedal to the metal as the toque put the tires on the edge of grip - just barely spinning/burning rubber as it torqued in second up to a mid-5 grand shift point. Stock form these motors wer not good breathers.. 6,000 grand shifting was fantasy and watching the driver walk away on you. . Driving/Street Racing a period correct Muslle Car was all about finesse on the gas pedal getting the belted tires to not be overpowered by the torque in 1st and second , Amazing historic video/filming...
All always recall the guy with a glorious 69 GTO on Cragar S/S's that wouldn't"run" that car ever.
Why does it look like they are doing 15mph off the line?
Just look at the Charger and the stripes on the Mustang.
Steven McQueen is Smiling.
Valerie!
The Mustangs have a weight advantage of 800-1,000 lbs. being sporty compacts vs. mid size cars.
what year is this?
1987
I grew up in that era, but looking at those numbers is painful. Most modern day stock muscle cars are @ 12 sec cars, I know my charger is 12.1.
When the strip wasnt open we would race from pole to pole thats telephone pole to telephone pole Lmfao !!!
@@FrankChesser we had a spot between Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia and Berryville, Virginia on Rt. 340 where we counted off 7 telephone poles which came out to be a 1/4 mile lol
Personally i wouod have put the heavier mopars up against a 428 Torino. Notba mustang. The mustang had the weight advantages
I like dodge but man Ford will forever be my favorite
Ive gotta a dart that will make that mustang think it is in a horror movie.
@@ernestcherry1707 I’ve always wanted a 1970 Dart ❤️
Back when controlling wheel spin wasn't used much.
Were the l 88 big block chevy
Mustangs are lighter & that girls reaction time was spot on.
If I had to pick one. I'm thinking the 70 Challenger.
Valerie wins because women have a quicker reaction time. We bear children and it’s in our nature that we take care of and protect them from harm with our lives throughout history. As far as drag racing we are balanced at the hip because we are designed to bear children, therefore we can release the brakes, dump the clutch and hit the gas pedal simultaneously. Men are balanced at the chest for upper body strength.
Having a 1968 428 cobra jet Shelby Mustang sure helps a lot though.😊
they should bracket race
Charger is carrying more weight than the Mustang for sure.
"You snooze, you lose."
Where is this track? Has to be at a high altitude with those ET's and trap speeds.
The 1/4 mile times are proper for a 100% stock car......U have no clue kid
Yeah kid. These cars are just slow.
@@juniordiaz6445 they were all slow and over rated in horsepower by 18%.....
city block is 264 feet average. or quarter mile is 5 city blocks not two.
I had that exact .69 Mach I and thought it was a rocketship. My 2009 Honda Accord would outrun it now.
thanks
They didn’t show any 1969 z28(s
@@charlesbox3308 different video
Boss 429 cars were so detuned it made them pathetic. Thos engine was capable of 600 hp e en detuned but it was a mismatched bunch of racing parts that were hastily slapped together to homologize it for NASCAR use. If Ford had taken a little time and put some thought into it they could have had a real legendary piece with the hemi mustang. It was a dog on the street, but it could be tuned for competition easily in the right hands with great success.
@@charleslum2438 the 429 and 302 Boss cars were not setup for drag racing. Both did poorly on the drag strip but excelled on road course and oval track.
Stock for stock the 428 scj would eat the boss 9 for lunch all day long… yep it’s true the stock boss was a dog.